exponent

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exponent

/ɛkˈspəʊ.nənt/ UK
/ˈɛk.spə.nənt/ UK
/ɪkˈspəʊ.nənt/ UK
/ɛkˈspoʊ.nənt/ Canada, US
/ˈɛk.spoʊ.nənt/ Canada, US
/ɛkˈspəʊ.nənt/ Australia
[ekˈspəʉ.nənt] Australia

Where it comes from

From Latin expōnēns, present participle of expōnō (“to expose; to exhibit, display, set out; to explain”), from ex- (“out, away”) + pōnō (“to lay, place, put”).

noun exponents

One who expounds, represents or advocates. Like attracts like," explained Mrs. Mailey, who was quite as capable an exponent as her husband.
The number by which a value (called the base) is said to be raised to a power in exponentiation: for example, the 3 in 2³=8.
Similar: power
obsolete The degree to which the root of a radicand is found, for example, the 2 in √r=b. A Power that hath neither the Signs #43; or - before it, is look'd upon as Affirmative, and if it be preceded by a Number that contains the Root ſought and its Exponent may be commenſured by the Exponent of the Root; namely for the Square Root by 2, for the Cube by 3, &c. it will contain the Root ſo
Similar: degree, power
A phonological manifestation of a morphosyntactic property; in layman's terms, the expression of one or more grammatical properties by sound. However, there have been no examples presented of gender systems where the plain n triggers one exponent for gender agreement, and the male and female ns together trigger a different exponent.
The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.

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noun one who expounds, represents or advocates

Português	expoente
Français	exposant
Deutsch	Exponent
Română	exponent
Русский	сторо́нник storónnik

noun (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised

Español	exponente
한국어	지수 jisu
日本語	指数 shisū, 冪指数 bekishisū
中文	指數 /指数 zhǐshù
हिन्दी	घातांक ghātāṅk
Português	expoente
Français	exposant
Deutsch	Hochzahl, Exponent
Română	exponent
Русский	сте́пень stépenʹ, экспонент eksponent
العربية	أُسّ ʔuss
עברית	מַעֲרִיך ma'aríkh

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@misc{exponent_2026,
  title = {exponent},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/exponent},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}